Calendar

The calendar below lists the tentative course topics. The dates listed are subject to change at the instructor’s discretion.

As part of the course, there are several articles, papers and technical reports that you will need to read during the semester. Most of the articles themselves are accessible through the University of Minnesota library website. In order to access the full text of some of the articles, you will need to log in using your University x500 username and password. More detailed information, including references or links to specific readings, are linked under the day’s “Reading”.




Date Reading Topic Notes Script
  Sept. 06 Welcome to EPsy 8251
Unit 01: Introduction to Statistical Computing
Sept. 11 Introduction to R and RStudio
Sept. 13 Data Wrangling with dplyr
Sept. 18 Plotting with ggplot2
Unit 02: Regression Basics
Sept. 20 Simple Linear Regression: Description
Sept. 25
Sept. 27 Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Estimation
Oct. 02 Correlation (and Standardized Regression)
Oct. 04 Coefficient-Level Inference
Oct. 09
Oct. 11 Model-Level Inference
Oct. 16
Oct. 18 NO CLASS—Mental Health Day
Unit 03: Deeper Understanding
Oct. 23 Introduction to Multiple Linear Regression
Oct. 25
Oct. 30 Understanding Statistical Control
Nov. 01
Nov. 06 Assumptions of the Regression Model
Nov. 08
Unit 04: Extending the Regression Model
Nov. 13 Dummy Coding Categorical Predictors
Nov. 15
Nov. 20 Polychotomous Categorical Predictors
Nov. 22 NO CLASS—Mental Health Day
Nov. 27 Polychotomous Categorical Predictors
Nov. 29
Dec. 04 Introduction to Interaction Effects
Dec. 06
Dec. 11 More Interaction Effects
Dec. 13